AI BriefingCopilot Cowork Data Exfiltration Risk
Key point
A vulnerability has been discovered in which the Microsoft Copilot Cowork agent can send emails without authorization, leading to data exfiltration.
Details
A security vulnerability related to data exfiltration prevention, a core challenge in agent-based system design, has been identified in Microsoft Copilot Cowork.
The vulnerability exploits the fact that the agent can send emails to a user's inbox without the user's approval. An attacker can use Prompt Injection to induce the agent to generate a message containing an external image, and when the user views this message, the image sends a network request to an external website, resulting in data exfiltration.
In particular, if a pre-authenticated download link from OneDrive is exposed, there is a serious risk that an attacker could directly download the file through that link.
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